Police in the Ashanti Region has interdicted the police officer who allegedly shot and injured a football fan at the Baba Yara Sports Stadium over the weekend.
An internal auditor from the Regional office of the Ghana Education Education Service, driver and bursar of the Peki Senior High School are in the custody of the police over an alleged food 'bribe'.
The National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) has backed the Ghana Education Service (GES) directive that teachers go through an aptitude test before they are promoted.
The GES says this will ensure the efficiency and effectiveness of the promotion process.
Angel Carbonu, the President of NAGRAT, says the move is better than the interview system currently being used because it eliminates the human factor, and also less expensive.
“People go for the interview and through some mysterious means or reasons, they are just not passed…So we have met with the GES and we have all agreed that an aptitude test depending on the rank that one finds himself will be the way to go because it takes out human influence and also contributes to the reduction of cost that leads to the delay of the interviews. So we feel that the aptitude test is the better option than the man to man interview that was leading to several problems,†he spoke to Citi News.
However, the African Education Watch does not side with NAGRAT as they believe teachers in the country should be promoted based on their output in the classroom rather than accessing them with an aptitude test.
Executive Director of the African Watch Kofi Asare described as GES' move as retrogressive adding the move will not assure accountability in the country's educational system.
''I thought that we were departing from this test-based assessment system to a more practical way of accessing teacher performances for that matter promoting teachers. I thought that as we are entering towards greater levels of educational accountability and promoting learning outcome attainments, we will be adapting to certain strategies where teachers are accessed based on the learning outcomes of children they teach as a means of enhancing teacher performances and promoting accountability of teachers to learning outcome''.
''But here is the case we are going back to the aptitude test to promote teachers instead of using the monitoring and evaluation system to improve the learning outcome of students. So I think that this move is not progressive and does not assure teacher accountability and for that matter teacher accountability towards learning outcomes,'' he added.
African Education Watch has stated that teachers in the country should be promoted based on their output in the classroom rather than accessing them with an aptitude test.
The Public Relations Officer of the Ashanti Regional branch of the Ghana National Fire Service, ADO1 Ackah Desmond Essoun says his outfit is collaborating with the Bureau of National Investigation (BNI) and the National Security to track, arrest and prosecute prank callers.
Benjamin William Quarteyquaye Quartey-Papafio was a Ghanaian politician and also a Physician. He is also the first Ghanaian to obtain medical degree in the Gold Coast Colony.
The Deputy Minister of Education, Gifty Twum Ampofo has stated that the government is committed to decongesting Senior High Schools and ultimately phasing out the Double-Track system.
Striking members of the Technical University Teachers Association of Ghana (TUTAG) have indicated that despite the National Labour Commission (NLC)'s order to return to the classroom they can not give a definite date to resume full academic activities.
